Read the full judgment text of DCEC 000576/2000 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 6 December 2001.
1. At 4.07 am on 4 August 1999, the applicant, Mr Tsui Yiu-wing, attended Kwong Wah Hospital complaining of a swollen right ring finger. X-ray examinations showed that it was fractured. He says that this had happened on the previous afternoon when, in the course of his employment with the respondent, whilst he and some other workmen were moving a heavy metal cylinder by placing it on a trolley, the cylinder had tilted and trapped his right hand and finger against the entrance to the lift into wh